Publications

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Article

Good Markets (Really Do) Make Good Neighbors

By: Scott Duke Kominers

This article gives a (very) brief exposition of what market design is, along with four examples of market design in action. Loosely themed after Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Wall,” the examples demonstrate ways in which market design can break barriers—physical,... View Details

Keywords: Market Design; Economics; Theory; Change; Society

June 2008
Supplement

Walt Disney Company's Sleeping Beauty Bonds - Duration Analysis - courseware

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

Keywords: Bonds; Theory; Education; Information; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

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May 2004
Article

The Role of Information in Medical Markets: An Analysis of Publicly Reported Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery

By: David Cutler, Robert S. Huckman and Mary Beth Landrum

Keywords: Information; Health; Markets; Theory; Outcome or Result

05 Sep 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Performance Responses to Competition Across Skill-Levels in Rank Order Tournaments: Field Evidence and Implications for Tournament Design

Keywords: by Kevin J. Boudreau, Constance E. Helfat, Karim R. Lakhani & Michael E. Menietti.

12 Sep 2007
Working Paper Summaries

The Ethnic Composition of U.S. Inventors

Keywords: by William R. Kerr

December 2006
Article

How User Innovations Become Commercial Products: A Theoretical Investigation and a Case Study

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin, Christoph Hienerth and Eric von Hippel

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Product; Theory; Information

2004
Article

Mergers and Acquisitions: An Experimental Analysis of Synergies, Externalities and Dynamics

By: R. Croson, A. Gomes, K. L. McGinn and M. Nöth

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Theory

20 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced

question to Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Letian Zhang, who studies organizational theory and strategy with a focus on social inequalities and status hierarchies. He explores the issue in a recent paper scheduled to be... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 1998
News

Merton Named University Professor

Kim B. Clark called Merton a "terrific choice" for the McArthur University Professorship. "His interests have natural connections with faculty and students in different parts of Harvard," Clark said. "His research is at the forefront of his field, he joins View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

Books

authors show managers how to use theory — statements of what causes what, why, and when — to make the process of creating new growth businesses more predictable. Using real-life examples of companies from a wide range of industries, the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

April 2000
Article

Is Group Affiliation Profitable in Emerging Markets? An Analysis of Diversified Indian Business Groups

By: Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Profit; Emerging Markets; Theory; India

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Article

Mitigating Bias in Adaptive Data Gathering via Differential Privacy

By: Seth Neel and Aaron Leon Roth

Data that is gathered adaptively—via bandit algorithms, for example—exhibits bias. This is true both when gathering simple numeric valued data—the empirical means kept track of by stochastic bandit algorithms are biased downwards—and when gathering more complicated... View Details

Keywords: Bandit Algorithms; Bias; Analytics and Data Science; Mathematical Methods; Theory

26 Oct 2015
News

Sal Khan Goes Back to School

teaching on the fly. “This is a lab for establishing new theories that could affect the rest of the planet,” Khan told Wired magazine recently. “The whole point is to catalyze change.” To learn more, read the complete article. View Details

Keywords: Khan Academy; Educational Services

2010
Working Paper

Competing Complements

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Barry Nalebuff and David B. Yoffie

In Cournot's model of complements, the producers of A and B are both monopolists. This paper extends Cournot's model to allow for competition between complements on one side of the market. Consider two complements, A and B, where the A + B bundle is valuable only when... View Details

Keywords: Profit; Revenue; Monopoly; Game Theory; Competition